Comments on: KisMAC - Free WiFi Stumbler/Scanner for Mac OS X

By: eM3rC

eM3rC — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 22:19:13 +0000

This with netstumbler is an amazing program. There was a section of 60 Minutes dedicated to the use of this program to pick up mall wi-fi networks so hackers could steal peoples credit card numbers while the information was being transfered between the atm card slider thing and the modem to process the credit card information.

By: Sir Henry

Sir Henry — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:54:05 +0000

@Pantagruel

I bought the D-Link DWL-122 for use with KisMac. It is probably the most sought after by Mac users for KisMac. The only problem is finding a firmware that works properly with it. I had some down time a few months back and was playing around with the latter, but have since been too busy to get back to it. If I have time over the holiday, I will let you know what I find.

By: Pantagruel

Pantagruel — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:38:42 +0000

@ goodpeople

I will shortly find out (X-mas holidays will give me some time hopefully, after relatives/etc have gone). I got myself a Mac Mini (Santa sort of told me no PB this year ) and am now looking for a suitable wireless adapter (usb) since the onboard doesn’t appear to work with kisMac.
Apart from that there will some digging into the OS X-es BSD background.

By: goodpeople

goodpeople — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:39:30 +0000

@Pantagruel,

I don’t wory too much about availability of the right tools. Like you said, OSX’s bsd background sort of garuantees anything to be there.

By: Sir Henry

Sir Henry — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:26:34 +0000

Ah, it is the same release as before, but it looks as though they are beginning to do more with it now that they have moved their servers to Switzerland. The one aspect about the Airport cards is that on the Intel Macbook/Pro models, they cannot be put into passive mode, thus requiring a usb nic that has supported drivers. I do have a supported D-Link nic, but the drivers are obsolete and appear to crash the card every time I try to put it into passive mode. Back the to the drawing board, I guess.

By: Sir Henry

Sir Henry — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 03:49:26 +0000

I will have to give KisMac another shot. I tried it out with 10.4 a few months back with a d-link usb wireless adapter, but for some reason, the drivers just did not work. Is this version a new release?

By: net2004eng

net2004eng — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 14:56:21 +0000

@mumble

I was going to mention this actually after I made the post, about rfmon support for windows. You can purchase a product, like AirPcap: http://www.cacetech.com/products/airpcap.htm

but the cost is prohibitive for most…None the less, another category where Windows is slacking…

By: Pantagruel

Pantagruel — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:03:12 +0000

@ goodpeople

The underlying OS of OS X is bsd like, it will mean some code changes to get it running.
According to Apple (http://www.apple.com/macosx/technology/unix.html) it’s fully unix compliant

By: goodpeople

goodpeople — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 09:45:44 +0000

Good to know that there are also good sectools available for the mac. One of my students is using a Mac and I have been wondering about the software to use for my classes.

By: Pantagruel

Pantagruel — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 00:36:43 +0000

Let’s see if I can persuade Santa to drop a MacBook Pro down the chimnee, all other OSses are covered

Indeed a very handy addition when concerning stealth and the naming convention is simply fun, Kismet, KisMac and KisWin. Not that stealth is really needed, the amount of open AP’s is big enough to hop about without too much of a risk of being caught (netstumbler gives me 7 with average and above signal strength), a reboot is usually enough to switch to another AP. Within the restricted environment of my job it’s a cool app and has helped (Kismet) to find ‘rogue’ AP’s without arousing suspision.